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The Jim Henson Company's 1977 special Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, is getting an update from Flight of the Conchords’s Bret McKenzie! As Variety reports, McKenzie will write both the script and the new music for the family Christmas movie, which is being produced by The Jim Henson Company, Ed Helms’s Pacific Electric Picture Company (Corporate Animals), and Snoot Entertainment (You’re Next). The original TV special was based on Russell Hoban’s children’s book of the same name, which features a family of financially strapped singing otters who seize an opportunity to win a …

Fresh off her breakout performance in Leave No Trace, Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie has signed on to join Anya Taylor-Joy in Edgar Wright's psychological thriller Last Night in Soho, which has also added Doctor Who alum Matt Smith, Collider has learned. Wright came up with the original story and co-wrote the screenplay with Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Penny Dreadful), though plot details are being kept under wraps for now. All we know is that the story is set in London's Soho district, and that's where filming will take place this summer. The film will be a co-…